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XFD Package - Release 1.07
==========================
COPYRIGHT
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All parts of this software package are freely distributable for
noncommercial use. If you redistribute XFD, you have to keep all files
together. All programs are copyright by their authors.
DISCLAIMER
----------
The authors are not liable for any changes made to any part of the
package, or consequences thereof as they cannot be made responsible for
damages or loss of data directly or indirectly caused by their
software.
AUTHORS
-------
Georg Hörmann - Definition of XFD standard, xfdmaster.library,
xfdLibInfo, xfdList, xfdDecrunch, Asm support,
some external decrunchers.
Anders Melchiorsen - 'C' includes, protos, pragmas.
Dexter&Bartman/Abyss - External decrunchers for FIRE and RNC.
WEPL - External decrunchers for SSUR, TPWM & TSM.
INTRODUCTION
------------
Almost every Amiga user has some crunched files on his (hard)disks,
either Powerpacked docs or crunched demos, utilities or whatever. But
what to do when you need the files to be uncrunched, and you don't call
the cruncher your own (or it doesn't support decrunching)? Enters XFD.
FEATURES
--------
This software package allows you to decrunch nearly every packed file
known on the Amiga. It consists of the xfdmaster.library as the brain
and a couple of programs that offer certain functions to the user.
The xfdmaster.library is a standard Amiga shared, runtime library. It
works with Kickstart V33+ and offers applications the possibility to
directly support any crunched files.
Other than the predecessor decrunch.library, the xfdmaster.library has
a more flexible user interface, offers the possibility to decrunch
already loaded program segments and supports external decrunchers.
EXTERNAL DECRUNCHERS
--------------------
External decrunchers can be easily written by any programmer who has
knowledge about the inner workings of a new cruncher. That way almost
everybody is able to keep the library up-to-date. External decrunchers
are stored in "LIBS:xfd/" and xfdmaster.library loads them on startup.
The following are available at the moment:
Chryseis - supports Chryseis Cruncher 0.9
PMC - supports PowerPlayer Module Cruncher (Normal/Sample mode)
XPK - supports any XPK sublibs (Crunchers/Encryptors)
FIRE - supports FIRE Cruncher
RNC - supports Rob Northern (RNC1 & RNC2) Cruncher
SSUR - supports SSUR data files
TPWM - supports TPWM data files
TSM - supports TSM data files
SUBMISSIONS
-----------
You are a programmer who has
- developed external decrunchers for xfdmaster.library?
- written applications that support xfdmaster.library?
You have new crunchers that are not supported yet?
Please send anything of the above to the following address:
Georg Hörmann
Martinswinkelstraße 16c <=- NEW ADDRESS
82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Germany
TO DO
-----
[xfdmaster.library]
- Add segment support to all internal relocatible decrunchers.
[xfdDecrunch]
- Add some more options like removing/adding of suffixes.
Other ideas? Write to the address above!
HISTORY
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XFD 1.07 [xfdmaster.library 34.1]
- Added new sublibs for SSUR, TPWM and TSM crunchers.
Thanks to WEPL for sending them.
- Added RNC2 support to the RNC external decruncher.
Thanks to WEPL again for sending me the sourcecode.
XFD 1.06 [xfdmaster.library 34.1]
- Increased library version to 34 because of new features.
The V34 library is fully downward compatible to V33 libraries.
- Rewritten xfdGetErrorText() function with lots of new error codes.
- Added xfdTestHunkStructureNew() routine that returns detailed
error codes.
- Added xfdRelocate() routine for better segment list support.
- Extended xfdSegmentInfo structure for relocation mode support.
- Overworked autodocs for more detailed information.
- Overworked whole 'C' support stuff (includes, protos, pragmas).
- Updated Assembler support files.
- Added external decruncher for PMC files.
- Added support for recognition and decrunching of segments
to the following slaves:
- PowerPacker 2.3 command files (all modes)
- PowerPacker 3.0 command files (all modes)
- PowerPacker 4.0 command files (all modes)
- Added new version of xfdLibInfo with extended information.
- Added external decrunchers for RNC and FIRE files. Thanks to
Dexter&BartMan/Abyss for sending me this stuff.
- Added ATN! support to xfdmaster.library. Dexter/Abyss sent me
an external for this one, but it's just a FImp clone, so I
added it to the internals.
XFD 1.05 [xfdmaster.library 33.6]
- Added decrunch support for StoneCracker 4.04 executables.
- Added external decruncher for XPK files.
XFD 1.04 [xfdmaster.library 33.4]
- Added 'C' includes, protos, pragmas. Thanks to Anders Melchiorsen
for typing all this stuff. Thanks to Brice Allenbrand too. He also
typed some 'C' stuff, but Anders was 3 days faster. Sorry!
- Removed arp.library from the package as everybody has it anyway.
- Added decrunch support for StoneCracker 4.04 data & address files.
XFD 1.03 [xfdmaster.library 33.3]
- Added new version of xfdDecrunch with extended features.
XFD 1.02 [xfdmaster.library 33.3]
- Did astonishing speed optimization to CrunchMania decruncher. All
files with lots of relocs will decrunch about 30 times faster. Thanks
to Markus Schmall who sent me a file (GadToolsBox with over 8000 [!]
reloc entries) that took 90 seconds (!) before that code cleanup and
3 seconds afterwards. Actually he thought XFD would crash, but who
waits 90 seconds ??? ;-)
- Added Chryseis 0.9 decruncher. This one is implemented as external
decruncher including sourcecode as an example on how to code that
kind of thing.
- Added File Imploder (FImp) decruncher.
- Added new version of xfdDecrunch with lots of new features.
XFD 1.01 [xfdmaster.library 33.2]
- Added asm includes, autodocs and fd files.
- Final fixes in password code.
- Added new versions of xfdDecrunch and xfdLibInfo.
- Added support for external decrunchers.
XFD 1.00 [xfdmaster.library 33.1]
- First public release.